[Digikam-devel] Exif auto-rotation not working anymore

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just updated my digikam installation the first time since a few weeks
> > and now the auto-rotation of images by exif tag seems is broken (jpg and
> > orf). Can anyone confirm this?
> 
> > I get a lot of these messages on the console now:
> I have a good candidate why this is broken:
> 
> KExiv2Iface::KExiv2Priv::printExiv2ExceptionError: Cannot parse Exif
> Orientation tag using Exiv2   (Error # 6 :  Ungültiger Schlüssel
> "Exif.Sony1Cs.Rotation"
> 
> Exif.Sony2Cs.Rotation is a makernote tag checked as one of the first tags
> in KExiv2::getImageOrientation(). Obviously exiv2 decides to throw an
> exception from there, which means getImageOrientation will never succeed.

Ok it seems the fault is on our side, this tag was recently added in exiv2. 
Perhaps ifdefs around this makernote check?